The building or project condition
New build in the Pilbara, on a working port, delivered to the port authority's programme rather than our own.
What FRS delivered
- Passive fire protection across the building, delivered in four staged releases against an agreed programme
- Service penetration fire stopping through rated walls and floors
- Fire doors and associated hardware
- Close-out records issued progressively rather than held to the end
What made it difficult
- Remote mobilisation to the Pilbara, where a missing component costs days rather than an hour
- Work staged around an operating port and the other trades on the programme
- A fixed completion date tied to the building being handed to its operator
- Pilbara heat, which sets what can be worked and for how long, and affects some materials as well as the people using them
- Cyclone season, which compresses the programme at one end of the year and can take days out of it without notice
- Port security and induction requirements before anyone reaches the building
- Accommodation and flights booked around the work, so a delay on site is a delay to a whole crew's logistics
What was recorded at close-out
- Location-by-location penetration record with photographs
- Fire door schedule and asset information
- Certificate of Compliance
The Pilbara adds a cost to every mistake. A component that turns out to be wrong is not a trip to the supplier, it is a freight booking and a week. So the work is scoped properly before anyone travels, and the crew goes up able to finish what they went for.
The programme ran in four releases against the port authority's own dates, each one closed out and recorded before the next began. That matters on a building that has to be handed to an operator on a fixed day: the records are finished when the work is, not assembled afterwards from memory.
